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B11 1 1 ,1 lls I IMI.s METRO NEWS SUNDAY. SIPIIMHI.K POOLS: Lack of Inspectors Adds to Health Problems By JACK PETERS INTERNATIONAL MASTER CHESS 8 1 i if 7 4 I 6 5 tit! 3 2 1 i Iff S104 over objections of health officials, who saitl more was need -cd. In Orange Countv. the fee wont from S29 in 1981 to S13fi in 1986 and has risen more gradually since then to $179, said county analyst Betty Watari. The department now has 48 inspectors who arc respon -sible for checking restaurants as well as pools.

Los Angeles landlords say a large fee increase would mean "the county is just sucking more and more blood," said Dan Faller, president of the Apartment Owners Assn. of Southern California, which represents about 12,000 landlords. It also costs pool operators in Southern California an average of $90 a month for oncc-a-weck pool service and $145 for twice-a-weck service, according to the Service Industry News. are also responsible for monitoring water quality at the county's beaches. Complaints, such as those about "dark" pools, get the next-highest priority.

Because of the high risk of drownings and disease under such conditions, inspectors try to respond immediately when they learn of dirty pools, Kebabjian said. If inspectors have to ciose pools and even cloudy pools are frequently closed for fear they will turn "dark" guidelines say they should return within 48 hours to see if the problems have been fixed, he said. But, as in the case of the Sepulveda pool, that is not always possible. "Basically, we just put out fires," Kebabjian said. The problem with that approach is that not all contaminants are visible to the human eye, and thus may go undetected, 1 d4 Nf6 2 NI3 e6 3 Nbd2 A Root ly d5 4 3 c5 5 c3 Now vvn h.ivo .1 Colle System Nbd7 The other pofml-n r.ysleni of defense is 5 Nr.6 6 Bd3 BifB 0 0 () 0 8 Bxc5 9 04 Putting die Knight on iM 'discoi lieges d4xc5 because ol the icply Nn7xr.5 6 Bd3 Bo7 7 0-0 0-0 8 Netjl? Livelier then the usual 8 e4 dxc4 9 HwA b6 10 Rel Bb7 Ne5 9 deS Nd7 11 8I6 Nf6 12 e4 c4 13 Be2 Against 13 Bc2.

Silman planned 13 o5" 14 cxd5 Bc5 15 Kh 1 Ng4. wilh dangerous threats b6 14 eS Nd7 15 Nf3 Nc5 16 Nd4 Bd7 17 Bg4 0x8 Alter 1 01)6 18 Bo3 NiO'l 19 0ri2 Bc5 20 b4. White threatens Bg4-c2xd3 And 18 n4 19 cxM Oxb4 loses to 20 Nxelji BxeG 21 BxeG NxeG 21 0xd5 18 151 As 18 exlh 19 Bxl5 Bxl5 20 Nxl5 I1xf5' permits 2 1 Rxl5 0x15 22 QxdSt Kh8 23 Kh8l Offering the exchange by 19 IG gxlG 20 Bhli lb' 2 1 Bx(8 0x18. which gives Black plenly of compensation 19 813 If 19 IxeG NxeG 20 BxeG BxoG 21 Nxbb, Black should draw Willi 21 Rxl 1 22 Qxl 1 Qb8 23 Ni14 0xe5 24 8(4 OIG Nd3 Plugging the lilo Again 20 IxeG BxeG 21 Nxbb tloesn'l worry Black, because ol 2 1 Oc5 22 Ni14 Nxeb 20 Qe2 BcB 21 IxeB Bxd4 More ambitions is 2 1 BxoG. When 22 Be3 NxeG tavois Black 22cxd4Bxe6 23b3Qc7 24bxc4 Hoping for 24 bxc4'l 25 Ba3 Nol 24 B.13 b4 25 bxcl as 25 NI4 picks up a piece Nxd 25 Raxcl bxc4 26 Qe3 QaB 27 Rf2 Rab8 28 Rcf1 Kg8 29 h3 Qb4 Removing all rl.inn.er inslead, 29 Rl lets While capitalize on Ihe l-lilo by .30 Bg4i Re7 31 QI4! Bl 32 eG 30Kh2 Rbc8 31 Bd1, Drawn.

Kramer (U.S.A.I IM G. Garcia (Colombia). U.S. Open, Jacksonville 1990: 1 c4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 NI3 NcB 4 d4 An unfashionable varinlibn ol the English Opening exd4 5 Nxd4 Bb4l 6 BgB h6 7 Bh4 No6 8 Rc1 NgB 9 Bg3 Saler is 9 BxlG QxlG 10 e3. wilh equality N4 10 Od3 Bxc3 11 bxc3 Nxg3 12 Qxg3 0-0 13 e3 Worth a thoughl is 13 c5.

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c6 21 Be4 Both 2 1 BxeG' No5 and 2 1 NxeG' BxeG 22 BxeG Neb cost malarial Nh4 22 Qh1 Qe8 23 (4I7 Hoping lo entangle Black's Kingsnle pieces. Rg4 24 Kf2 16 Forced, as 24 NgG? 26 h3 costs Ihe Rook. 2B Bd3 cB 26 QdB Nol 2G Nbb BcG. but 26 gxh4! cxrM 27 cxd4 Qh5 28 Rxb is -wild and unclear Kh8 27 NxfS NxlB 28 BxfB Bc6 29 Qe6 Also 29 QxdG Rd8 30 QxriBt (nol 30 Qe6? Qhb) Oxd8 3 1 Bxgt Qd2 32 Bo2 should dolond. QhBI 30 H477 Black has chances alter 30 Bxg4 Qxh2 31 Kel Ro8 32 Qxe8 Bxe8 33 Be2 Qxg3.

but 32 QI5! Rxo3 33 Kd I Ba4 34 Rb3 holds. Rxh4 31 gxh4 Re8 32 Qg6 Of3 33 Kg1 Qh1 34 Kf2 Qh2 3B Kel Rxe3 36 Kd1 Qe2. White Resigns. As 37 Kel Rxc3 38 Bc2 Rxc2 30 Qxc2 Qxl 40 Kl)2 0x14 gives Black too many pawns lor Ihe exchange II I 1 1 Sept. 23, 1.990 Position 6081: Bl.n.k to pl.iy vvrn From llm (i.lll.iutiw.

J.n.Unnvillo Solution to Position E080: Whiln bro.ll.s Ihmuijh Willi I Ocl 2 hx)li hxrjli 3 i)ht vvmsl .1 R(G Rvifi Oxnlit KIH Billif Ro 0 1)10 Knl! Qxn. thirMtnninijfl It Oil I. thon QI8 Kh 01 nwtos INTERNATIONAL NEWS The sensntionnl Gala Kamsky, 16, o( Nnw York City is leading a strong international tournament in Tilburg, Holland. Alter 10 of 14 rounds, Kamsky has 7-3, a point ahead of British GM Nigel Short. The other American competitor, GM Yasser Seirawan of Seattle, is near the bottom with 4-6, and has not won a game.

Kamsky currently holds the highest rating of any player in the United States. In Ins brief career, he has played in only a lew elite tournaments. But, in this double round-robin, he has won. five games and lost only once, to Short. LOCAL NEWS The' second annual Summit Publishing Challenge Match began quietly Monrlay in Santa Monica with a draw.

Two of the area's best players, IM Doug Root and IM Jeremy Silman. are contesting a six-game match on Monday and Friday evenings at the Santa Monica Bay Chess Club, 1450 Ocean Ave. in Santa Monica. Spectators are invited to watch the games, which begin at 7:30 p.m. The match is sponsored by Summit Publishing, a' local publisher of chess books.

The Valley Chess Assn. will host the Victorvillo Championship, a six-round tournament, on Sept. 29-30 at Victor Valley College, 1 8422 Bear Valley Rd. in Victorville. Call Steve Bradley at 1619) 243-5874 for information.

The T.P.M. Sunday Open takes place Sept. 30 at the Hampton Inn, 25260 The Old Road in Valencia, It's a four-round tournament with a time control of 75 minutes per player per game. For do-tails, call Gary Sauer at (8051 253-1 30 1 or Don Loncaric at (805) 257-0797. In honor of National Chess Week, Gym for the Mind -at 4907 Topanga Canyon Blvd.

in Woodland Hills will present a variety of events. They will conduct a four-round beginner's open and three-round Action chess quads on Sept. 29, a simul by master Bon Nethercot on Oct. 3, and World Rapid Chess rated quads on Oct. 6.

For more information, call 18181710-8042. The Hughes Heat Wave, a 39-player tournament, was won by Jeremy Martin, 6-1. Class prizes went to Brian Firer bsugh, Ted Kanamori, John Bush, Dominic Meo and Arash Parang. The Hughes-Chess Club, which meets Thursday evenings in the Hughes Missile Group cafeteria, 8433 Follbrook Ave. in Ca.noga Park, begins a six-round Action chess tournament on Sept.

27. There will be two games every Thursday, with a time limit of 30 minutes per player per game. Call Herman Hess at (8181 346-5959 or John G. Price at (8 18) 363-1 379, for details TODAY'S GAMES IM D. Root IM Silman HI.

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Unbeknown to the pool service or to school officials, one of the pool's three filters was not working. The parasite was therefore able to infect swimmers for about a month before county health offi-cials were called and discovered the broken filter, Thornton said. "I thought everybody was just getting the.flu," Thornton said. Health officials say they do not know if there have been other major outbreaks of swimming-re-latcd illnesses, such as eye infections and gastrointestinal parasites, in Los Angeles County as a result of the lack of inspections. "There certainly is potential for illness and other problems in inadequately maintained pools," said Dave Quinton, an environmental health specialist for the state Department of Health Services.

"And the longer you don't do inspections, the greater the risk." Local health officials say that in recent years they have been getting complaints about- so-called "dark" pools, ones that are so overgrown with algae that a drowning swimmer could not be seen beneath the muck. For six weeks this summer, a group of tenants at a Sepulveda apartment house complained to the building's manager trial their swimming pool was turning into a miniature Everglades. The courtyard pool looked and.smelled like a bubbling bog of pea soup garnished with a rubber glove, plastic cups and a half-eaten ear of corn! Parents worried that children would slip into the muck and disappear. They also complained about the stink and clouds of white bugs that hovered over the pool's surface, only yards from their apartments. But eVen after a health inspector spotted the problem during the first county inspection in almost three years, the pool remained untreated for 11 days.

The inspector, overwhelmed by a heavy caseload, was delayed that long in writing the report that ultimately forced the landlord to drain the water or risk prosecution. "We do the best we can, but we just don't have enough people," said Richard Kebabjian, chief of the county's recreational health program, which monitors the pools. "None of the pools around here are kept up it's a chronic, problem, and I'm worried about it for the children's sake," said Dan Balderrama, principal of Langdon Avenue Elementary School in the same Sepulveda neighborhood. Kebabjian said the shortage of personnel has forced him to rank the inspectors' duties, with routine pool inspections at the bottom of the list, the eight pool inspectors ijmfiwt radio show, R.E.O. InvestorLecturer.

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